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Can I park here?
Pick your block and get one answer: park or don't, how long you have, and what it costs if you're wrong. Four rules stack on every DC curb — meter hours, the permit clock, rush-hour tow lanes, and sweeping — and this reads all four against the clock right now.
18 block faces across 7 neighborhoods · Updated August 25, 2026
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Why one sign is never the answer
DC curbs are governed by four independent systems that were never designed to be read together. A meter can be legal while the lane above it is a tow-away clearway. A residential block can be free at 9 PM and a $50 ticket at 9 AM. Sweeping runs on one side of the street and not the other. Drivers don't get tickets because they ignored a sign — they get tickets because they read one sign and stopped.
This tool does the stacking. It takes the posted regime for a specific block face, runs it against the current time in Washington, and returns the binding constraint — the one that decides whether you can leave the car. When two rules conflict, the harsher one wins, because that's how enforcement works.
What this deliberately does not claim
It does not know whether a space is empty. There is no real-time occupancy feed for DC curbs, and any product claiming otherwise is guessing. It also cannot see temporary emergency no-parking postings for moving trucks, film shoots, and construction — those appear on a pole with 72 hours' notice and override every rule below them.
Where we haven't confirmed a block sign-by-sign, the tool says the rules are inherited from the corridor rather than pretending to certainty. Where we have no coverage at all, it says that too. A confident wrong answer about a curb costs you $50 or a tow, so the honest gap is the better product.
Common questions
Can I park here right now in DC?
It depends on four things stacked on the same curb: meter hours (paid 7 AM–10 PM Monday–Saturday), the residential permit limit (2 hours for non-residents, weekdays 7 AM–8:30 PM), rush-hour clearways (7–9:30 AM and 4–6:30 PM on major corridors, tow-away), and street sweeping (posted mornings, roughly March–October). Pick your block above and the tool applies all four to the current time. The posted sign on the pole is always the final authority.
How long can I park on a DC block without a permit?
On a residential permit block, two hours during the posted window — weekdays 7:00 AM to 8:30 PM, and on some Ward 1 blocks including Sundays and holidays. At a meter, the maximum on the meter itself, usually two hours, until 10:00 PM Monday through Saturday. Outside those windows there is generally no limit unless another sign says otherwise.
Will I be ticketed or towed?
Different consequences, different signs. Overstaying a meter or a permit limit is a ticket, typically $30 or $50. Parking in a rush-hour clearway, blocking a travel lane, or sitting in an emergency no-parking zone is a tow, and the recovery cost runs well past $200 once towing and storage are added. This tool flags tow risk separately for that reason.
Does my RPP sticker let me park anywhere in DC?
No. Your permit only exempts you from the 2-hour limit on residential blocks carrying your own zone plate. It does nothing at a meter, nothing in a rush-hour clearway, nothing during a sweeping window, and nothing one zone over. Check the permit box above to see what changes and what doesn't.
Which DC blocks does this cover?
Block-face coverage is live for Adams Morgan, U Street Corridor, Logan Circle, Dupont Circle, H Street NE, Georgetown, Columbia Heights — 18 block faces so far, expanding corridor by corridor. When a block isn't covered the tool says so instead of guessing, because a confident wrong answer about a curb costs you money.
Is parking free in DC on Sundays and holidays?
Meters are free all day on Sundays and on DDOT-observed holidays, and weekday residential permit limits don't run. Two things still apply: some Ward 1 permit blocks are posted 'including Sundays and holidays', and temporary emergency no-parking signs are in force every day of the year.
Next: citywide enforcement status, the distance rules that get people towed, or the neighborhood guides.